Wings to Fly - Supporting young people through scholarships - Follow-up project

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As part of financial cooperation, the nationwide Wings-to-Fly scholarship program for secondary school students, run by the Kenyan Equity Bank's Equity Group Foundation (EGF), has been co-financed in four phases since 2013, thus creating the conditions for high-performing but particularly disadvantaged young people to lay the foundation for more demanding further vocational training with a high-quality secondary education. In Phase 5 presented here, the focus on agricultural vocational training as an alternative to university studies for graduates of the program is to be significantly increased. This opens up the opportunity for German development cooperation to significantly increase the effectiveness and visibility in strengthening vocational training measures in Kenya. In addition, around EUR 2 million will be used to mitigate the effects of COVID 19 on learning. The aim of the FC measure is to support needy young people with outstanding achievements to date by providing scholarships for attending high-quality vocational training, entrepreneurship training and access to start-up financing, as well as mentoring, extracurricular events and advice, thus enabling them to receive high-quality vocational training and strengthening their sense of social responsibility. This is intended to contribute to improving the employment of qualified workers in Kenya. The target group of the FC measure are disadvantaged but high-performing secondary school graduates who want to pursue agricultural vocational training. The total cost of the FC module is EUR 8 million. An FC contribution (a grant of EUR 8 million) is planned to finance these costs.